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A CRITICAL SITUATION. 271
still and wait. I spent a good deal of my time patting
and caressing the camels, and so sorry did I feel for them
at having been led zig-zag backwards and forwards for
20 miles across the desert unnecessarily that, be the result
what it might, I gave them the whole of the sack of kamish
(reeds) we had brought with us from the spring, and a
sack of ice in addition.
A Gully in the Shor (Sail) Desert.
Imagine, therefore, my amazement and my delight
when about noon Shagdur, with light and elastic step,
emerged from out of the all-engulfing haze ! He had
been on foot no less than 19 hours, had been all the way
to Faisullah’s camp, and then, begging a few pieces of
ice and a handful of rice, had turned round, and in the
night, and in the middle of the sand-storm, found his
way back to my camp, for he was afraid we should go on
without him.
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